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Department considers plans to intervene directly to force down rates and stimulate the moribund housing market, according to sources.

The Treasury’s efforts to jump-start the housing market led to a surge in mortgage refinancing activity, and officials are considering new ways to entice buyers.

The outgoing Bush administration has told top lawmakers it does not plan to use at least half of the $700 billion bailout fund that Congress approved this fall to aid the financial industry, congressional officials said Monday.

Treasury may need to give billions to mortgage giants and the tab could top the $200 billion set aside.

The $700 billion economic rescue pool is evaporating after the plan set off a lobbying free-for-all.

The FDIC and Treasury are in negotiations on a $600 billion package to guarantee mortgages and in turn, perhaps spur lending.

The government has cleared the way to ship out $125 billion this week to the country's largest banks, beginning the biggest government bailout in history

The U.S. government will start doling out $125 billion to nine major banks this week to get credit flowing again.

The bailout is now the hottest lobbying game in town.� Insurers, automakers and other industries want the Treasury to cut them a piece of the largest government rescue in U.S. history.

The bailout is now the hottest lobbying game in town.  Insurers, automakers and other industries want the Treasury to cut them a piece of the largest government rescue in U.S. history.